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It’s just been a bit of a cRaZy week: car troubles, busy at work, being sick, an out of town guest and few other things I can’t remember. It’s just kept me from blogging and even reading the blogs I read.

I’m back at work at 110% time while I’ve previously I’ve only been there about 70% time the past year or so (that’s how I’ve managed to find time to teach other classes and try a few other things). But I can really see the difference in being at work that much. I’ll get used to it in a few weeks, I guess…

So the car was acting up earlier this week, it’s an automatic and it wasn’t shifting (stuck in first) this was due to the speedometer not working so it was a relatively cheap fix ($187) compared to needed a whole new transmission.

I’ve been fighting some kind of cold and not even realizing it, I just been sleeping a lot but I thought I was just tired. On Friday, I really started being hoarse and coughing so I broke down and went to the doctor. He gave me drugs so we’ll see…

I had an old friend from college come into town and while that was excellent, it certainly would have been better if I was feeling better and didn’t need naps. We spent most of the time eating, chatting or watching movies (Becoming Jane and Martian Child).

The latter movie raised a few issues for me because I’ve thought so much about adopting in the past, it’s mostly been this last year or so that I haven’t been thinking so much about it, but I have been recently thinking about it again so this movie hit home…

So coming up soon – I’ll probably have some postings on keeping in touch with old friends, adoption and two movie reviews.

So I went to leave the house and I had another flat tire, not a crisis I just wished I had noticed it earlier. It had a nail (maybe it was a screw) in it. I’m thinking that was a new tire from a few weeks ago (I had a flat on a different tire, but they rotated so I think this is a the new one). I didn’t wimp out and call the Auto Club (but isn’t that what I pay them for?). So much for the productive day I had planned. So now I’m getting fast food and waiting at the shop for the tire to be replaced….

This just ties into the kind of day I had so far:

Spilled on my clothes twice (so I changed twice).

Knocked a jar of medicine into the toilet (at least it was empty, so into the trash with it).

They call me and tell me it’s going to be longer before the auto club gets there so I go back inside and start grilling up some food. Guess who shows up as I start that? Now I’m eating fast food…

And they just scrubbed the Shuttle Launch. Very disappointing day so far…

UPDATE: Shuttle rescheduled for Saturday.

UPDATE 2: Tire was covered under the road hazard warranty (I love Belle Tire). Plus they fixed a rim leak in another that was running low. Was still a hassle and wasted a bit of time but at least it was free. :)